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nu·mi·nous

 (no͞o′mə-nəs, nyo͞o′-)
adj.
1. Of or relating to a numen; supernatural.
2. Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence: a numinous place.
3. Spiritually elevated; sublime.

[From Latin nūmen, nūmin-, numen.]

nu′mi·nos′i·ty (-nŏs′ĭ-tē) n.
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numinous

(ˈnjuːmɪnəs)
adj
1. denoting, being, or relating to a numen; divine
2. arousing spiritual or religious emotions
3. mysterious or awe-inspiring
[C17: from Latin numin-, numen + -ous]
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nu•mi•nous

(ˈnu mə nəs, ˈnyu-)

adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural.
2. surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious.
3. arousing one's elevated feelings of duty, honor, loyalty, etc.
[1640–50; < Latin nūmin- (s. of nūmen) numen]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.numinous - evincing the presence of a deity; "a numinous wood"; "the most numinous moment in the Mass"
sacred - concerned with religion or religious purposes; "sacred texts"; "sacred rites"; "sacred music"
2.numinous - of or relating to or characteristic of a numen
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numinous

adjective (Formal) holy, religious, heavenly, spiritual, divine, mysterious, supernatural, awe-inspiring the most natural and numinous of human passions
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numinous

adjective
Of or concerned with the spirit rather than the body or material things:
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In the pages of "Numinosity: Photographs, Paintings & Text", Richard Louis Perri (aka Luckey) artistically presents of memorable images of urban San Francisco.
He baptizes not only up Cherith in the wildlands numinosity east of the River, but also sets up shop near Aenon and Salini, on the west, straddling the route to the south of elite entrepreneurial traffic, coming down from Scythopolis to Jerusalem, after partying and schmoozing with Herod in Tiberias (Jh 4:23; Sawicki, 4, 145-6, 158, 173, 185; Stinehart, 2008, 1).
Terror and numinosity go together, and Vasarely, that great voyager in infinite space, seems to be a mystic in search of lost gods.
can drive the human intellection of an incognizable numinosity,
It examines in depth Lewis's symbolism of the color green in his descriptions of nature, what Patterson terms his "evocations of green numinosity in his poems and fantasies" (11.154).
Individuals and cultures are alike in having at their disposal images or entities into which numinosity may be deposited.
He could also have quoted from the Bible's Genesis 1:26, Psalms 82:6, and John 10:34 to enlighten his congregation about their numinosity. However, Muhammad's revelation on divinity is arguably more empowering than the surahs and scriptures because it asserts that, through the cultivation of righteousness, divinity can be developed and expanded infinitely.
The Mariner's condition is due to the loss of his spiritual numinosity in a one -sided ego-consciousness.
Knight suggests that Fitzgerald should be considered to be "the preeminent English novelist of the late twentieth century," and he finds a theological richness in Offshore especially in its themes of "betwixtness" and "numinosity." Knight makes the case for the importance of the novel in his article, "'Between the Hither and the Farther Shore': Penelope Fitzgerald's Offshore." The article traces aspects of the relationship between Fitzgerald and critic Frank Kermode, but suggests that Fitzgerald's "religious faith imbues her fiction" to a degree that Kermode might not have been well prepared to acknowledge.
As a "professional hunter," "professional musician" and "professional men's minister," Henderson's biographical statement waxes lyrical: "Prostaff Member of Bear Archery, Grim Reaper Broadheads, Whitetail University, In God's Country, and God's Country Camo, Brent has hunted from the plains of Africa to the rugged mountains of Alaska." (7) We see in Henderson's ministry a clear echo of the renaissance years of men's ministry in the early 1990s when there was a complex two-directional influence with the secular mythopoetic men's movement and its love for the wilderness and the numinosity of the great outdoors (Gelfer, 2009, pp.
For all of his clear and not so clear statements of apostasy about the Anglo-Catholic faith in which he grew up, for all his insistence on a metaphysics of this world, unhindered by Christian doctrine, the language he has employed, as he endows the natural world with numinosity, even in its ultimate meaninglessness, is often based on a Christian lexicon.